Comments on: The new annoying way to spam on Twitter and how to stop it

By: Brendan Tripp

Brendan Tripp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:05:08 +0000

Why would you FOLLOW a spam account? One of the nicest things about Twitter is that you don't see any garbage unless you have specifically allowed them onto your monitor. I probably only re-follow 1 out of 4 folks that follow me, and so am blissfully free of spam (unless you count those moronic FourSquare auto-posts … and I wish that somebody would write a GreaseMonkey script like the excellent “FacebookPurity” to get rid of those!).

By: Bill Carr

Bill Carr — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:03:02 +0000

Good advice. I also report all the people that follow me just to get me to read their adverts or dodgy links. I never automatically follow back like a lot seem to do!!

By: Doug Braun

Doug Braun — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:56:17 +0000

Using TwitSweeper.com helps since it gets rid of your spammy followers for you, continuously.

By: Patrick Allmond

Patrick Allmond — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:36:05 +0000

Why even bother taking the time to deal with this? Ignore it like you ignore regular spam. I don't know about you but I have better things to worry about that reporting every little person that tweets out on twitter. I open, I scan through for things that are useful, I close it and move on. No amount of reporting is going to stop it or ebb the flow.

By: justinmatthews

justinmatthews — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:14:57 +0000

good grief I didn't realize what all of those tags were. I thought they were opt-in ads. Thanks for setting my brain straight!
I am off to kill some spam…
(vikings sing softly in background “wonderful spaaaam, lovely spaaam….”)
Jusitn

By: flargh

flargh — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:07:37 +0000

Totally agreed. This insidious form of Twitter spam and self promotion has gotten totally out of control. I just wish that Twitter's developers would take the bull by the horns and try to wrestle this problem with more effective proactive user management.